Scope and Content

Comprises autograph letters sent by Peake to his wife Maeve Gilmore whilst travelling through Europe on assignment for the Leader magazine, where he attended the war crimes trial of Nazi officer Peter Back and visited Belsen concentration camp:

A. ‘Darling little lover’: undated (2 leaves).

B. ‘Darling Maeve’: inscribed 'Hotel Scribe, Paris'; undated [the three leaves appear to have been written separately but on the same day].

C. ‘Most dearly beloved’: [from Wiesbaden] undated (4 leaves).

D. ‘Sweetest wife’: contains sketch of German boy and girl; inscribed 'Bad Neuenahr. Just south of Bonn'; undated (4 leaves).